Re: Search Engines
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2002
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texte = Alex has hit the nail on the head.You either write the pages out or you make the pages appear like they arethere.Making the pages available is the first big part of making a site searchengine friendly. I have a couple of documents I wrote explaining the rest ofthe mysteries if you are interested. We actually offer this as part of ourservice.Question marks are not your friend.----- Original Message -----From: Alex McCombie
To: WebCatalog Talk Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 9:15 AMSubject: Re: Search Engines> On 9/26/02 7:09 AM, Alan White wrote:>> > Hi> >> > I was wondering if anyone had advice as to how to go about making a WCsite> > search engine friendly? I know that store builder comes with a featurefor> > doing this but otherwise I was hoping others might have come up with> > solutions for custom built sites...> >> > Hope you can help...> >> > Alan> [Warning] The following option is labor intensive[/warning]>> If you really wanted to you could employ the following logic.>> Dynamic content links to pages that do not exist in the following fashion:>> A href=/site/dynamicvarname/dynamicvarvalue/index.tpl>> Then if you control your 404 error page you can extract out thevariable(s)> and implement them into the non existent page.>> Similarly you could also, more easily, pass variables all within the file> name such as:> A href=/site/value-value-value.tpl>>> For various functions and with control over the error page this can beused> to complete search engine friendly (verb) a section of a site.>> We use this example in a discussion forum. Each link to the form used togo> to an address such as:> A href=topic.tpl?sku=62365t12492>> Where the sku was queried and shown on the screen.> A href=62365t12492.tpl>> Where the error page is trapped and the file name is stripped of the .tpl> and the sku is queried, we can essentially take a forum with 20,000entries> and turn it into what appears to be 20,000 pages.>>> Now, once again, this can be a cumbersome process to get started but oneyou> do the possibilities for things like forums, stores, press releases, etcare> quite numerous.>>> Best of luck> Alex>>>> By adopting the concept of> Alex J McCombie New World Media> Chief Information Officer Drawer 607> 800/724.8973 Fair Haven, NY 13064> Alex@NewWorldMedia.com http://OurClients.com>> Interface Designer WebDNA Programmer Database Designer>>>> -------------------------------------------------------------> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to> the mailing list .> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to> Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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Alex has hit the nail on the head.You either write the pages out or you make the pages appear like they arethere.Making the pages available is the first big part of making a site searchengine friendly. I have a couple of documents I wrote explaining the rest ofthe mysteries if you are interested. We actually offer this as part of ourservice.Question marks are not your friend.----- Original Message -----From: Alex McCombie To: WebCatalog Talk Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 9:15 AMSubject: Re: Search Engines> On 9/26/02 7:09 AM, Alan White wrote:>> > Hi> >> > I was wondering if anyone had advice as to how to go about making a WCsite> > search engine friendly? I know that store builder comes with a featurefor> > doing this but otherwise I was hoping others might have come up with> > solutions for custom built sites...> >> > Hope you can help...> >> > Alan> [Warning] The following option is labor intensive[/warning]>> If you really wanted to you could employ the following logic.>> Dynamic content links to pages that do not exist in the following fashion:>> A href=/site/dynamicvarname/dynamicvarvalue/index.tpl>> Then if you control your 404 error page you can extract out thevariable(s)> and implement them into the non existent page.>> Similarly you could also, more easily, pass variables all within the file> name such as:> A href=/site/value-value-value.tpl>>> For various functions and with control over the error page this can beused> to complete search engine friendly (verb) a section of a site.>> We use this example in a discussion forum. Each link to the form used togo> to an address such as:> A href=topic.tpl?sku=62365t12492>> Where the sku was queried and shown on the screen.> A href=62365t12492.tpl>> Where the error page is trapped and the file name is stripped of the .tpl> and the sku is queried, we can essentially take a forum with 20,000entries> and turn it into what appears to be 20,000 pages.>>> Now, once again, this can be a cumbersome process to get started but oneyou> do the possibilities for things like forums, stores, press releases, etcare> quite numerous.>>> Best of luck> Alex>>>> By adopting the concept of> Alex J McCombie New World Media> Chief Information Officer Drawer 607> 800/724.8973 Fair Haven, NY 13064> Alex@NewWorldMedia.com http://OurClients.com>> Interface Designer WebDNA Programmer Database Designer>>>> -------------------------------------------------------------> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to> the mailing list .> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to> Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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